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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
leaders have set, but until now failed to meet, for reconfiguring the
nation’s health care system.
With Senate Republicans straining to coalesce around plans,
new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price met pri-
vately with GOP senators Wednesday, but participants said no spe-
cifics were discussed. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said lawmak-
ers and the White House are trying to decide who should release a
plan to replace Obama’s law first — the White House or Congress.
Associated Press
‘Day Without Immigrants’
protests being held across US
PHILADELPHIA — Immigrants across the country are
expected to stay home from school and work today to show how
critical they are to the U.S. economy and way of life.
“A Day Without Immigrants” actions are planned in cities
including Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Houston, Chicago
and New York. The protest gained momentum on social media and
by word of mouth.
It comes in response to President Donald Trump, whose admin-
istration has pledged to increase the deportation of immigrants liv-
ing in the country illegally. Trump campaigned on building a wall
along the U.S.-Mexico border, and blamed high unemployment on
immigration. As president, he’s called for a ban on people from
seven Muslim-majority countries from coming into the U.S.
Organizers expect thousands of people to participate or show
solidarity with workers.
Problem nominations are
hard to avoid, history shows
WASHINGTON — It was pretty much inevitable.
Every recent president has had a doomed Cabinet nomination
or two, and President Donald Trump is no exception.
On Wednesday, Trump’s choice for labor secretary, fast food
CEO Andrew Puzder, withdrew his name after Republicans
expressed concern over his failure to pay taxes promptly on a for-
mer housekeeper who wasn’t authorized to work in the U.S. Dem-
ocrats also had complained about Puzder’s business record and
remarks about women and workers at his company, which owns
Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.
Puzder was Trump’s first Cabinet-level nominee to withdraw.
The president also ousted his first national security adviser, Michael
Flynn, after just weeks on the job because Flynn wasn’t truthful
about his contacts with Russian officials during the transition.
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and both Bush presidents all had
to come up with new names after nominees for their Cabinets ran
into trouble.
Military seeks $21M to clean
lead-contaminated armories
PORTLAND — The Oregon Military Department is seeking
$21.6 million from the federal government to clean up toxic armor-
ies around the state.
The Oregonian reported Wednesday that the money would go
toward cleaning armories in Portland, Ashland, Backer City, Bend,
Coos Bay, Eugene, McMinnville, Ontario, Pendleton and Salem.
The state’s request to the National Guard Bureau comes after
an 18-month investigation by The Oregonian that revealed wide-
spread lead dust problems in armories nationwide.
The 2016 investigation showed that state military leaders tried
to cover up how long they knew about the problem and downplay
its severity. The Oregon military has recently increased disclosure
about its toxic armories.
In December, the National Guard Bureau, which oversees state
units, said it would pay for armory cleanups, the first time it has
made such a commitment.
Washington court rules against
florist in gay wedding case
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court has
unanimously ruled that a florist who refused to provide services
for a same-sex wedding broke the state’s antidiscrimination law.
Barronelle Stutzman, a florist in Richland, Washington, had
been fined by a lower court for denying service to a gay couple
in 2013. Stutzman said she was exercising her First Amendment
rights, and her lawyers immediately said they would ask the U.S.
Supreme Court to overturn today’s decision.
She had previously sold the couple flowers and knew they were
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gay. However, Stutzman told them that she couldn’t provide flow-
ers for their wedding because same-sex marriage was incompatible
with her Christian beliefs.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the couple
sued her, saying she broke state anti-discrimination and consumer
protection laws, and the lower court agreed. The state’s nine high
court justices upheld that verdict.
Texas splits with other states,
defends Trump travel ban
SAN FRANCISCO — Texas is splitting with other states and
defending President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven
predominantly Muslim nations.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed documents with the
San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednes-
day asking the court to reconsider its decision not to immediately
reinstate the ban. Paxton says the ban is a legal exercise of presi-
dential authority.
A three-judge panel last Thursday refused to block a lower court
decision that suspended the ban. The panel rejected the Trump
administration’s claim of presidential authority and concluded that
the order was unlikely to survive the legal challenge mounted by
the states of Washington and Minnesota.
The 9th Circuit will decide whether to have a larger panel of
judges reconsider that decision.
House GOP batting around
options for revamping health law
WASHINGTON — With the Republican drive to craft a
new health care plan sputtering, House GOP leaders are offering
options to rank-and-file lawmakers for replacing President Barack
Obama’s health care law with a conservative approach domi-
nated by tax breaks and a transition away from today’s Medicaid
program.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and other House leaders
planned to discuss details of their plans with lawmakers today and
gauge their receptiveness. The briefing was coming hours before
a weeklong recess sends Congress home to energized voters —
mostly Democrats — who have recently crammed town hall meet-
ings to complain noisily about GOP efforts to repeal Obama’s stat-
ute. Lawmakers are eager to have something to show constituents.
“This is complicated work. We’re not going to rush it,” said Rep.
Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Energy and Com-
merce Committee, one of the panels helping craft the legislation.
Walden said by the end of March, his committee would start
writing its part of the measure voiding much of Obama’s law and
substituting GOP programs. That’s the most recent of several
self-imposed deadlines that President Donald Trump and GOP
China carfentanil ban changes
the game for opioid epidemic
SHANGHAI — China is adding the deadly elephant tranquil-
izer carfentanil and three related synthetic opioids to its list of con-
trolled substances effective March 1, China’s National Narcotics
Control Commission said today.
The move closes a major loophole in the global regulation of
a substance so lethal it has been used as a chemical weapon and
described as a terrorist threat.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration called China’s
action a potential “game-changer” that is likely to reduce supply
of key chemicals driving a surge of overdoses and deaths among
unsuspecting drug users in North America. After China controlled
116 synthetic drugs in October 2015, seizures in the United States
of compounds on that list plunged.
“It’s a substantial step in the fight against opioids here in the
United States,” said Russell Baer, a DEA special agent in Washing-
ton. “We’re persuaded it will have a definite impact.”
China has emerged as an important source country for opioids
like carfentanil, which burst into public view last summer when it
appeared in the North American drug supply. Dealers cut fentanyls
into heroin and other drugs to boost profit margins.
Pro-government tribal leader
among dead in US raid in Yemen
CAIRO — The main figure killed in last month’s U.S. raid in
Yemen targeting al-Qaida was a tribal leader who was allied to the
country’s U.S.- and Saudi-backed president and had been enlisted
to fight Yemen’s Shiite rebels, according to military officials, tribal
figures and relatives.
The government connections of tribal chief Sheikh Abdel-
Raouf al-Dhahab raise further questions over the planning of a raid
that turned into a heavy firefight with casualties on both sides.
One U.S. Navy Seal was killed, six American soldiers were
wounded and a military aircraft suffered a hard landing and had to
be destroyed in the assault, which took place days after President
Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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painting, “Friends in a Storm Approaching,” left, by Scot-
tish-born artist James McDougal Hart, today, at the mu-
seum in Wellesley, Mass. To protest President Donald
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contributions that immigrants have made to culture.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities today
announced the second and third arrests in the death of the North
Korean leader’s half brother, whose apparent assassination this
week unleashed tales of spectacular intrigue: a pair of women
assailants, a broad-daylight killing and a dictator-sibling out for
blood.
But investigators were still piecing together details of the case,
which hinges in part on speculation that North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un dispatched a hit squad to kill his estranged half brother,
who loved gambling and casinos and lived abroad for years, know-
ing he was a hunted man.
The three suspects — two women and a man — were picked
up separately Wednesday and early today. The women were iden-
tified using closed-circuit TV footage from Kuala Lumpur Interna-
tional Airport, where Kim Jong Nam, who was 45 or 46, suddenly
fell ill Monday morning.
He died on the way to the hospital, after telling medical work-
ers at the airport that he had been sprayed with a chemical, said two
senior Malaysian government officials, who spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitive diplomatic issues involved.
Multiple South Korean media reports, citing unidentified
sources, said two women believed to be North Korean agents
killed him with some kind of poison before fleeing in a taxi.
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